Device for severing measured portions from a bar of ice cream



July 5, 1938. HULSKAMP 2,122,523

DEVICE FOR SEVERING MEASURED PORTIONS FROM A BAR OF ICE CREAM Filed April 24, 1936 g xa' Patented July 5, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DEVICE FOR SEVERING MEASURED POR- TIONS FROM A BAR OF ICE CREAM Bernardus Hulskamp, Alkmaar, Netherlands Application April 24, 1936, Serial No. 76,290 In the Netherlands April 25, 1935 2 Claims. (01. 107-21) When dispensing ice cream or similar frozen wall 3 substantially corresponds with the inner dainties, the Vender generally deposits a measdiameter of the receptacle I. The second supured serving of the same into a container or porting wall 4 is plane, i. e. rectilinear in cross upon a wafer by means of a spatula, Bulk ice section and is used to support a bar of ice cream cream, however, has the property of being very of rectangular cross section adapted to bowl;

compressible, so that when pressing the gam into slices to be deposited between two rectanguinto a container or upon a wafer, the vender :1 W e Width o a 4 S b t a y generally delivers portions of greatly varied sizes. COTIeSDOIIdS With an inside dimension f the In order to obviate this drawback, it has already ceptacle 2 and is equa t e length o O Of 1 been proposed to press the ice cream upwardly the Wafer Sides- The Supporting Walls 3 d 4 out of a cylindrical container and then to sever TESDECtiVBIY are Connected at their p and at a layer of the desired volume from the frozen ice their bottoms with bounding members and 6, cream emerging above the container edge. and I and 8 respectively, which bounding mem- Although this manner of severing the ice cream bers determine the maximum length of the bar 15. will prevent the losses caused by the compression or rod of bulk ice cream and in the present case of the same when pressed down into a receptacle are made in the shape of boxes. The bar or rod or upon a wafer, it is not possible on account of of frozen cream or the like consequently will be the softness of the material to prevent when located against the supporting wall 3 or 4 and using the above mentioned device, that the slice between the bounding members 5 and 6 or I and 8 of ice cream is deformed into an unsightly shape at the upper and lower ends of the said walls 20 during the severing action. 3 and 4, the bulk ice cream not being wrapped up. The present invention has for its purpose to The lower bounding members 6, 8 constitute produce a device with the aid'of which it is posplatforms for supporting the ice cream bars. sible to sever slices of a desired thickness from The holders I, 2 are each adapted to be moved a rod or bar of bulk ice cream or similar frozen up and down in tubular casings 9, I0 respectively 5 dainties in such a way that the severed slice will provided in the refrigerating space of an ice practically completely retain the cross-section of cream venders cart. The casings 9, ID are open the bar or rod of bulk material. at their upper ends, and are closed by the upper For this purpose the device according to the bounding members 5, I. It will be clear from invention comprises a cylindrical casing within what has been said above regarding the shape of 30 which a holder for the rod or bar of ice cream holders I, 2 and supporting walls 3, 4, that the is adapted to reciprocate, the said holder consistcasing 9 which receives holder I is of cylindrical ing of an upper and a lower bounding surface, cross section, while casing I0 which receives which bounding surfaces are interconnected by a holder 2 is of rectangular cross section. If the 5 vertical Wall which is intended to serve as a supholders are in their lowest position, the bulk ice 5 port for the severing of the slices of ice cream. cream will be subjected to the action of a re- The invention is further explained with the aid frigerant. Each container I and 2 respectively of the accompanying drawing, in whichis provided in a longitudinal direction with a Fig. 1 is a front view of a device according to toothed rack II (Fig. (BO-Operating With a 4 the invention. resilient pawl tooth I3 which may be brought Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section according to the out of engagement with its toothed rack by means line 11-11 in Fig. 1. of an eye I4 against the action of the spring. Fig. 3 is a plan View and The holders I and 2 are each provided at the Fig. 4 is a cross section on an enlarged scale top with a hook-shaped handle I5 and I6 respecaccording to the line IV--IV in Fig. 2. tively by means of which they may be pulled up- 45 In the embodiment illustrated in the drawing wards out of their casings. The toothed rack is the device according to the invention is provided constructed so that the distance between two with two bar or rod holders I and 2, each comconsecutive teeth is equal to the thickness of one prising a supporting wall denoted as 3 and 4 filling.

respectively. In operation, the desired holder I or 2 (depend- 50 As shown in Fig. 4, the supporting wall 3 is ing on whether slices of circular or rectangular semi-circular in cross section and is used to supcross section are required) is pulled by its handle port a bar of ice cream of circular cross section IE or I6 upwardly through the open upper end adapted to be cut into slices to be deposited of the respective tubular casing 9 or I0. The

between two circular wafers. The diameter of holder may be pulled upwardly the distance of 55 a single rack tooth if a single thickness slice is to be enter the distance of two rack teeth if a double thickness slice is to be cut. The portion of ice cream projecting above the upper end of the holder is then severed with the aid of spatula H. A covering wafer is then placed upon the out portion or slice, the dainty thus formed is turned over, after which a secondfwafer is placed upon the'filling and the whole is ready for delivery. After the slice has been cut, the respective eye I4 is actuated to disengage the pawl tooth 13 from rack H and the holder, together with the remaining part of the bar of pushed back into the casing.

It will'be seen that the supporting walls 3, 4 rnove with the ice cream bars and thus constitute a supporting surface for the bars not only when the bars are in lowered position but also while the bars are being moved upwardly and during the severing operation, protecting the bars from deformation at these times. It will further be seen that the top bounding member 5 or 1, in the form of a box and having insulating properties, moves as a unit with the ice cream bar and back supporting wall. Thus only a single action or movement is necessary to open the receptacle and raise the bar. Similarly, by a single move ment, the bar can be lowered and the top opening of the receptacle closed by the box whereby the time during which heat leakage into the receptacle may occur is relatively short.

The upward and downward sliding movement of the holder is guided by means of guide bars l8, I9, secured to the holders. The casings 9, 19 are mounted at their tops into a box or case ice cream, is

20 provided with upstanding edges or collars 2 i 22 bounding the entrances'and with a ledge 23, provided at the circumference of the said box 20,

by means of which it is suspended in an opening of a support 24;

The part provided with the above device may contain a supply of bulk ice cream in metal holders. The said ice cream need not be wrapped up. It would also be possible to carry a supply of bulk ice cream bars wrapped irr'paper.

The members 5 and 6, respectively I and 8 and the case 29 may tie filled with an insulating material. I W

The'upper'bounding surfaces 5 and 7 respectivelyfof the holders may be fixedly or detachably attached to the supporting walls 3 and-:74 respectively'and in the latter case they are handled as a detachable cover for closing the open upper end of the casings 9 and I0 respectively.

I claim:

1. A device for dispensing measured slices from a bar of ice cream and similar frozen clainties, comprising a vertical elongated receptacle, a platform vertically 'reciprocable within said receptacle, a vertical wall having a width that substantially corresponds to one-half the cross sectional periphery of said receptacle, the lower end of said wall being fixed to the said platform and the upper end being provided with a cover for the receptacle.

2. A device for dispensing measured slices from a bar of ice cream and similar frozen daint-ies, comprising an elongated receptacle, a platform reciprocable within said receptacle, a supporting wall having a width that substantially corresponds to one-fourth the cross sectional periphery of said receptacle, the inner end of said supporting wall being fixed to the said platform and the outer end being provided with a cover for the receptacle.

BERNARDUS HULSKAMP. 

